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Are you a member of the 'Felicity' generation? Do you remember her American Girl doll and tale as part of a historic Colonial Williamsburg tour?
On the CW blog, Whitney Thornberry, recalls her memories of the famous doll and tours inspired by her and the...

'Turn: Washington's Spies,' the AMC hit-series, was shooting in Colonial Williamsburg. Several streets near the Governor's Palace were blocked off or shut-down for filming with actors on set in full costume.
Henry Bronchtein, a producer on set, said...

A team of South Carolina archaeologists plucked three cast iron Civil War cannons from the Pee Dee River on Tuesday and marveled that 150 years in the muck hadn't done major damage to the weapons.
"These guns are in remarkable, pristine condition," state...

WILLIAMSBURG - Preservation Virginia and Colonial Williamsburg won't renew a contract for programming at Historic Jamestowne, but the former Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities gets to keep a remnant of the deal - CW vice president...

WILLIAMSBURG - State education officials will hold a hearing on Thursday in Williamsburg to gather community input on proposed revisions to the history and social science Standards of Learning exams given to public school students.
The history and social...

WILLLIAMSBURG - The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation announced a $600 million fundraising campaign Friday that will benefit its missions of history education and historical preservation.
The drive is $100 million more than the $500 million drive that ran...

When builders started to put the finishing touches on Bruton Parish Church in late 1714, Duke of Gloucester Street was little more than a meandering horse path that dipped out of sight while crossing the deepest of early Williamsburg's many ravines.
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Cabinet Room
12:01 P.M. EST
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today, the United States of America is changing its relationship with the people of Cuba.
In the most significant changes in our policy in more than fifty years, we will end an outdated...

As a constitutional law professor, I have mixed feelings about the first Monday in October. On the one hand, I look forward to the start of the new Supreme Court term in the same way a baseball fan looks forward to opening day. But I also dread what the...

54.5 miles per gallon. That is the target fuel efficiency for all light-duty vehicles by model year 2025. Yet if you’ve gone car shopping lately, you’ve noticed that the combined mpg is nowhere near that target. The average fuel economy of all new cars...

WILLIAMSBURG — Archaeologists exploring the grounds of a College of William and Mary dormitory where a sprig of a colonial brick footing was found last year have unearthed the remains of two outbuildings believed to be part of a landmark...

WILLIAMSBURG — Even in a town that archaeologists have probed countless times since 1930, few places have been dug over as many times as the landmark compound that makes up the historic colonial campus at the College of William and Mary.
But that doesn't...

Despite her husband's deep distaste for Modern art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller became nationally prominent as one of the avant garde movement's earliest and most influential American patrons — and the driving force behind the founding of New York's Museum...

Union Brig. Gen. Edward A. Wild was already a marked man when he landed on the banks of the James River near Sherwood Forest plantation in Charles City on May 5, 1864.
So was his “African Brigade,” whose relentless pursuit of Confederate partisans in...

Twenty-odd stubs from worn-out slate pencils may not seem that noteworthy in a region so rich with history that significant archaeological discoveries are common.
But at the site of the 18th-century Bray School off Prince George and Boundary streets in...

This sounds familiar: a national consumer group is fighting to maintain organic standards against industry people who want to weaken them. But when it comes to "organic wine," the well-meaning consumers may actually be discouraging more organic...